United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-09-13
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-09-11
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The Weekly Gasoline Product Supplied Report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Adminis
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Western Federal Lands Highway Division
2020-09-09
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Recreational travel to the country’s public lands has been increasing for the past several years. This trend is expected to continue in both urban and rural areas in the coming decades, even following COVID-19 impacts. Increasing visitation means increased use of the infrastructure that gets visitors both to and through our national parks, forests,
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-09-06
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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The Lake Tahoe region is a scenic area nestled between the California and Nevada border with a population of approximately 55,000 people. Persons who identify as Hispanic or Latino account for nearly 14 percent of the regional population. The region is also home to the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, which owns land and manages shorelines al
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-09-04
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The Weekly Gasoline Product Supplied Report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Adminis
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2020-09-03
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This digest shares the latest information from a range of Federal and non-Federal sources, addressing transportation and its relationship to the human environment. Through this information exchange, FHWA hopes to foster dialogue at all levels and continue to further the state of the practice on these important topics in support of safety; infrastru
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pathVu is developing AccessPath, a pedestrian wayfinding app tailored towards wheelchair users and people with visual impairments. Typical pedestrian wayfinding apps do not use the sidewalk network to provide navigation, nor do they know the quality of the routes that they direct their users. In addition, these apps are not user-friendly for people
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2020-09-01
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Many steel bridges are currently in need of maintenance. Maintenance operations may range from small component replacement jobs to major maintenance activities including repainting. Many steel bridges in the highway system are coated with paint that contains toxic heavy metal pigments (e.g., lead, chromate) in varying concentrations. These metals c
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Increased roadway traffic demands have led to a notable increase of large diameter tunnel boring machine-driven tunnels across the world. The technological advancements of tunnel boring machines have made them a viable technical option for tunneling in difficult conditions in urban environments at ever increasing diameters. Such tunnels utilize pre
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2020-09-01
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The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS) is an automated fusion and archiving system of real-time traffic, incident, and weather data obtained from agencies and communicated through dashboards and visual analytic tools. RITIS is a product of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATTLab) at the Unive
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The GIS in Transportation team publishes quarterly newsletters to share information about significant geospatial transportation news, events, and applications. Each issue highlights a specific transportation agency's application of GIS or geospatial data and technology.
Over the past 10 to 15 yr, the use of high-friction surface treatments (HFSTs) as a safety countermeasure has grown exponentially. HFSTs are pavement-surface treatments that restore or enhance pavement friction at locations with high friction demand, such as curves, ramps, and intersection approaches. While the crash-reduction benefits of HFSTs hav
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2020-09-01
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PEL is a valuable tool for creating efficiencies in the transportation project development process that supports agencies’ efforts to accelerate project delivery. PEL represents a collaborative and integrated approach to transportation decision-making that considers benefits and impacts of proposed transportation system improvements to the environm
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This study evaluated the performance of four coating systems applied on chloride-contaminated steel substrates. The purpose of the study was to identify coating systems that can provide extended service life for steel bridges with minimal surface preparation at a much reduced cost. The study helps estimate the amount of chloride contamination coati
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2020-09-01
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Transportation agencies are increasingly using probe vehicle data for transportation system performance management and as a resource for meeting the federal requirements of monitoring and reporting congestion and freight performance enacted in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). Federal regulations require setting object
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This guide is intended to support agencies that are interested in conducting pedestrian- and bicycle-focused RSAs and includes information on safety risks for both modes, the RSA process, necessary data, and the roles and responsibilities of the RSA Team. Also included are updated prompt lists for pedestrians and bicyclists to use in the field. Thi
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Livability in rural areas focuses on the towns, villages, working lands and natural resources that surround and connect them. Rural communities vary widely based on location, geography, economic and resource base, and other factors. “Rural” can describe farming, destination, gateway, resource-based, recreational, or other types of communities. Tran
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2020-09-01
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Urban Congestion Report (UCR)
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The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes the most recent traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year.
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